Blazkowicz [none/use name]

Jellyfin has largely the same, although I’ve never used Plex so maybe I’m wrong on that. It’s a pain for the host to setup and get going with jellyfin for multiple users with auth (speaking from experience), but it’s a do once have forever setup.

If you don’t own something, eventually Capitalism will weaponise it against your soul. FOSS is owned in common, and self hosting is your own. Never understood why people liked plex.

An excellent deep dive on this is done in the “This podcast will kill you” podcast (episode 120). There are a few main theories on why but generally we don’t really know much at all about its mode (or modes) of action.

Yep. We also don’t really understand how paracetamol works beyond knowing it does work and has very few side effects.